Grace Bible Church Georgetown, Tx

We are in a three-week Christmas series called Emmauel – God With Us. The first week we saw how God was with us in the hopeless lonely place of the wilderness. Last week God was with us when storms are raging all around us. Today, on this Sunday before Christmas, we look at how God is with us always. He has made promises to us about his abiding presence in our lives. One of the last things Jesus told his disciples was that he would be with them always, even to the end of the age. The Holy Spirit of Jesus Christ, God, is actively with us to bring about His will in our lives. Sometimes His activity can be confusing, disturbing, encouraging, and many other things because He often does not do things the way we would or expect. The beauty of living in the Holy Spirit is being shaped to see the world as He sees it. One of the great examples of how God works in unexpected ways is how he deals with Joseph in the Christmas story.